Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stems in part from the army's broken promise to hold presidential elections in 1966, its cancellation of the political rights of hundreds of Brazilians, and its use of censorship to keep a tight rein on TV, movies and theater. Moreover, Brazil's minimum wage is a meager $39 a month...
...time in 38 days that rocket or mortar clusters had hit Saigon, and there are no longer any safe areas in the city. Each rocketing and each allied effort to dig out attacking Communist ground units cause fresh destruction and new refugees who stagger from the shattered homes, clutching meager possessions, dragging or carrying tearful, terrified children. Hospitals are packed-some 4,800 civilians have been treated for wounds since early May and refugee centers overflow under the tide of the more than 160,000 people made homeless in the past six weeks. Schools have been closed for weeks. Many...
...million raised to modernize the creaky 117-year-old company, Western Union's growth rate has been discouraging. Telegrams, which still account for 46% of the company's revenues, were off last year; some modernization programs were slow getting started and, as a result, revenues rose a meager 5%. But Western Union does have some interesting possibilities. One is that, in spite of assets of $741 million, its total common-stock value is about $350 million-which puts it in the range that an acquisitive-minded smaller company could manage. Moreover, in an age of computers, Western Union...
...these studies have been limited by the difficulty of obtaining working amounts of the hormones in pure form. The largest of the present meager sources is in extracts from the tests of Icelandic sheep...
...unquestioned master of Alabama, free to conscript dozens of administration cronies to work full time in his campaign; 16 state troopers shielded him from hecklers when he went speechifying. Now, with campaign cash dwindling and April's Gallup poll showing his nationwide popularity down four points to a meager 10%, those days are numbered. Alabama's ambitious new Governor Albert Brewer, 39, is expected to fire state jobholders who stay away from work to stump for Wallace...